Park Parks Rare One

Marlins Smack Pair

April 26, 2009|Mike Berardino

Been a long time: Phillies starter Chan Ho Park entered Saturday with just two career home runs and none since Sept. 29, 2000. He connected on an opposite-field shot off Marlins starter Chris Volstad in the third inning.

Longball city: The first six runs of the game all scored on home runs, four of them in all. Besides Park, Ryan Howard also homered for the Phillies, while the Marlins got back-to-back homers from Jorge Cantu and Dan Uggla in the fourth.

Booted: Uggla also committed his team-high third error of the season when he bobbled Shane Victorino's grounder in the sixth. That led to the Phillies' third run, an unearned tally against Volstad.

Pen men: With closer Matt Lindstrom getting a one-night rest following his 38-pitch nightmare on Friday night, three Marlins relievers (Leo Nunez, Renyel Pinto and Kiko Calero) tried and failed to close things out in the ninth.